Celaya.
Three adults and a 1-year-old baby were killed in the city Celaya, located in the state Guanajuato, the center Mexicolocal authorities reported on Saturday.
This is the third SLAUGHTER which is registered until this year in the central Mexican entity.
The events took place at dawn on Saturday, when the agents of the National Guard noticed a burned house in the private neighborhood of Pedregal.
You have agents Prosecutor’s Office Criminal Investigation Agency local, who at the entrance to the house consumed by flames, first saw the body of a man.
Later, in one of the rooms, among the rubble, they found the baby’s body, while in the backyard were found two other bodies, one of a man and the other of a woman, both with gunshot wounds and burns.
Just last Thursday, in the same municipality, nine people were shot to death in a house where an awakening was being held.
And earlier this week, on January 4, five people were shot in an apartment in León, the largest in the state.
With this, there are 18 people killed in the first three massacres in Guanajuato, an entity that since 2018 is the most violent in Mexico.
The explanation given by the authorities of the incessant growth of Murders malicious is that they are, for the most part, related to disputes typical of organized crime.
Two groups are fighting to control the largest amount of territory in Guanajuato: el Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, whose leader, José Antonio Yépez Ortiz – nicknamed “Marro” – was arrested in August last year.
However, this was not enough to reduce crime.
In 2020, with a deadline until November, Guanajuato recorded 4,190 victims of intentional homicide, according to official figures. that is, 12% of the total of 34,523 malicious homicides registered in the country in 2020.